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JORGEN INGMANN & HIS GUITAR
“APACHE”
(Jerry Lordan)
Atco 6184
No. 2 April 3, 1961
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Jorgen lngmann-Pedersen was born on April 26, 1925, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He took violin lessons,
then acquired his first guitar at age 18. Two years later, he was playing jazz guitar in the style of Charlie
Christian with his own quintet. Svend Asmussen, a noted homeland violinist, got wind of lngmann and
enlisted him in his band, where he remained for the next dozen years. In 1953, Jorgen got his first chance
to create some solo singles. With Birthe Buch or Grethe Clemmensen (later Mrs. lnginann), he also tried
his hand with a sound modeled on the then-popular Les Paul-Mary Ford records.
In 1959, Jorgen’s manager, Metronome Record Company head BENT FABRIC, arranged for the stateside
Atlantic label to issue disks by Danish talent. Songwriter Jerry Lordan had a catchy tune for which he
could dream up no lyrics. British instrumentalist Bert Weedon cut the first side on “Apache”; it drew
little attention. The legendary Shadows–Cliff Richards’ back-up band–worked up a rough and beat-
bottom rendition that eventually outsold all versions worldwide, but that failed to chart in the U.S.
“Apache” was intended as the “B” side of lngmann’s self-penned “Echo Boogie,” a number that he believed
would establish him in America. His version of “Apache” featured guitar riffs that sounded like arrows
whizzing by. When Fabric called in March 1961 to tell him that “Apache” was a hit, Jorgen could only
respond with disbelief.
Jorgen lngmann never toured the U. S. Promotion for his future releases, he charged, were minimal, and
other than his initial follow-up, “Anna” (#54, 1961), nothing further sold well. Over the years, Jorgen has
had sporadic homeland hits with “Drinamarch” and “Toy Balloons”; in 1963, he and his wife won the
Eurovision Song Contest with their “I Love You.”